National attention has been drawn to the Border Patrol station in Murrieta, California (north of San Diego), where protesters have faced off with open-border counter protesters for the past several days as buses have brought Central American illegal aliens, many of whom are children, to the BP Murrieta facility for processing. Angry words have been exchanged on both sides, and not surprisingly, the media does whatever it can to paint the protesters as being "anti-immigrant" or racist.
Today, the LA radio station KFI ( 640 am) John and Ken show interviewed one of the ladies who have been protesting the arrival of the immigration buses. She described the presence of gang members who have been showing up recently (including today at Murrieta) to side with the illegal immigrants. It appears that the vicious criminal Salvadoran gang Mara Salvatrucha or MS-13, has now showed up in a show of intimidation.
We are also now learning that diseases such as scabies and TB are showing up in the immigrants. Never mind. They ( our government) transport them from their entry points to California and other points.
And all the while, our government wistfully proceeds along. Remember when ex-DHS chief Janet Napolitano assured us that the border has never been more secure? Now her successor, Jeh Johnson, tells us that they "will secure the border".
And what do you think is happening in Los Angeles, where many of these people will eventually end up? Our city government and the LAPD chief, Charlie Beck, say that they will not honor requests by the Feds to place holds on illegal alien prisoners. They (the Feds) must get a court order (not that the Feds usually care in the first place). Beck says that nothing is more important to the police than establishing trust within the community. What he means is that the police want illegal aliens to be able to come forward and report crimes and cooperate with the police without fear of being turned over to ICE. I get that, but what about illegal aliens that they have arrested? The only halfway reasonable explanation I can think of is that they might want to flip their illegal alien prisoners into informants. Unfortunately, I can speak from my own experience as a DEA agent that when one law enforcement agency works against another law enforcement agency for purposes of using an informant, the results usually turn out bad for society as a whole. What should be happening in cities like LA is that the LAPD and the Feds cooperate and share their intelligence to identify illegal alien criminals for purposes of prosecution or deportation. To do anything else is to screw your community and the people you serve. Protecting informants from prosecution by other agencies is bad police policy.
All this goes back to Washington DC, the current administration, and the Justice Department under Eric Holder, as well as the DHS under Jeh Johnson. The rule of law is being thrown by the wayside, and our sovereign right and duty to control our border means nothing to this administration. The loser, of course, is us.
